EXPLORATION

Precise exploration could be as cheap as (MEMs) chips

Miners are looking at constellations of small sats to do gravity field estimation

James Cormier-Chisholm, President, Eureka Maps
 MEMs technology can soon provide an answer to cheap, efficient gravity surveys

MEMs technology can soon provide an answer to cheap, efficient gravity surveys

  Drop a geological hammer above a metal gravity anomaly, and does it drop slightly quicker than expected? Was Galileo, right? Or was he almost right about how fast things drop in the earth's gravity?...

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